Re: Wrapper for gdk_get_default_root_window()?

["Matt Fischer" <mattfischer84 gmail com>]

On 1/19/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:02 -0600, Matt Fischer wrote:
> Hi all.  I'm writing a program that needs to get access to the X root
> window, and I can't seem to find a Gtkmm wrapper for
> gdk_get_default_root_window().

True. A patch would be welcome, in bugzilla, to add it to future
versions of gtkmm. I guess it should be a static method of Gdk::Window.

>   Doing the following works fine:
>
> Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::Window> root = Glib::wrap
> (gdk_get_default_root_window());

And do
root->reference()
because gdk_get_default_root_window() does not provide a reference.
gtkmm methods normal do that kind of thing for you.

> but that seems ugly.  Is there some type of API that Gdkmm introduces
> around this call that I should be using instead, or is it simply not
> wrapped?

--
Murray Cumming
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Great, thanks.  When I get some time, I'll try to get a patch made.

--Matt